"It has gone from one court to another and there has been no will actually to strengthen the case there has been lack of political will."

VOA: standard.2010.06.10

Don't you feel it in certain details: the eerie lack of people in this place? "No one left and no one came."

你们难道不在细节中感受到：,在这个地方十分怪诞，缺少人，“没有人走，没有人来“

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Because of the lack of oxygen getting to the cells, the cells are no longer able to carry on their various metabolic processes.

由于细胞中缺少氧气,所以细胞不能完成,它们的各种新陈代谢活动

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Nature is a meaningless concept just like the lack of meaning within nature, where there's no culture until culture comes along and says, "Oh, not so much there is nature, but I'm terribly unhappy because before I came along, there was nature." Right?

自然是个没有意义的概念,正如自然之中意义的缺乏，自然中原本没有文明，直到文明走过来说，“哦，自然的存在并不算什么，我很不高兴的是因为,我来之前，这里就有自然了“，是吧？

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Well, that's at least an improvement, because then we say, look, while you're asleep, even though there's no P-functioning going on, the lack of P-functioning is temporary, so you're still alive.

这至少算是个改进，因为我们能说，看，你睡着了，即便没有任何人格功能性发生，人格功能性的缺少是暂时的，就说明你还活着。

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